"Brian Mathis" <brian.mathis@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Please don't start this. These issues are exactly why one should be > looking at an ENTERPRISE OS for a server. Fedora, ubuntu, etc... are > not enterprise OSes, and any discussion of such issues are certainly > off-topic for this mailing list. An enterprise OS has all of the > dependency issues ironed out already. Like Debian? BTW, HP has provided enterprise Debian support for a while now. I think Ubuntu will be there soon, but as you say the track record isn't there yet. > Incidentally, I really think that all of the "apt lovers" out there > jumped to Debian in the days before tools like yum existed, and have > not been paying attention to the changes made since. You are correct > that yum handles most of the dependency issues, and it is certainly on > par with apt in any modern system. Mostly agree; I was just staggered that anyone could consider bare RPM (and the OP didn't mention yum or apt/rpm) as superior to apt on Debian/Ubuntu. -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings